We can now confirm that Nokia's long-overdue
Intrigue clamshell for Verizon is finally scheduled for release on March 23 in your choice of silver or pink (interestingly, the two colors have slightly different d-pad designs) for $179.99 on a two-year contract with a $50 mail-in rebate, and units are already starting to trickle into stores. That's cool -- it's an attractive phone and we're sure it's going to find some customers -- but the real news here might be the unusual home screen that Nokia has apparently designed just for this device. The company's really laying on the eco-friendly angle thick with the release, touting the ultra-tiny packaging, preloaded WWF wallpapers, green charger, and "unplug" message when charging is complete -- and to go along with the theme, they've created a so-called "Habitat Mode" home screen that organizes your contacts chronologically by when you communicated with them and automatically assigns them environment-themed avatars (which, thankfully, can be replaced). Weird, yes, but it does look kinda cool -- check out more shots of the phone in the gallery.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
KilgoreTrout @ Mar 19th 2009 6:41PM
This is all very nice , but I don't want this poo, I want an N97
Xoyuji @ Mar 19th 2009 9:09PM
It actually doesn't look half bad; it should do alright
youngcalihottie @ Mar 20th 2009 1:42AM
im very surprised. i think its a cool phone. and i think the d-pad design was a good move too. the different d-pad does fit the pink phone better.